Michael Pachter notes NPD report’s “discrepancies”
When you looks at sales reports from the eyes of several analyst groups, expect discrepancies. Wedbush Morgan Securities’ (WMS) analyst Michael Pachter makes this point, as he identified what appeared to be anomalies in NPD‘s recent sales report.
“There was a discrepancy between the number of Wii units claimed to have been shipped by Nintendo to North America – approximately 2 million – and the cumulative sell-through measured by NPD – approximately 1.1 million,” Michael remarked on the group’s sales reports for the Nintendo console, “This difference alone is almost impossible to reconcile.”
Moving on with his commentary, Pachter also found clashes in software sales reports. “Again, it’s not easy to reconcile NPD’s figures with other company claims. For example, GameStop claimed its software sales were up 18 per cent in November-December. However, NPD figures show that November-December software sales growth was only 6 per cent,” Pachter said.
As for how the year was for the three next-gen consoles, Pachter felt that Sony had the best month of the three, with Nintendo enjoying high sales, and Microsoft enjoying “the largest share of next-gen console hardware and software sales.” As he said collectively about the figures: “Everybody’s a winner.”
Via Games Industry
When you looks at sales reports from the eyes of several analyst groups, expect discrepancies. Wedbush Morgan Securities’ (WMS) analyst Michael Pachter makes this point, as he identified what appeared to be anomalies in NPD‘s recent sales report.
“There was a discrepancy between the number of Wii units claimed to have been shipped by Nintendo to North America – approximately 2 million – and the cumulative sell-through measured by NPD – approximately 1.1 million,” Michael remarked on the group’s sales reports for the Nintendo console, “This difference alone is almost impossible to reconcile.”
Moving on with his commentary, Pachter also found clashes in software sales reports. “Again, it’s not easy to reconcile NPD’s figures with other company claims. For example, GameStop claimed its software sales were up 18 per cent in November-December. However, NPD figures show that November-December software sales growth was only 6 per cent,” Pachter said.
As for how the year was for the three next-gen consoles, Pachter felt that Sony had the best month of the three, with Nintendo enjoying high sales, and Microsoft enjoying “the largest share of next-gen console hardware and software sales.” As he said collectively about the figures: “Everybody’s a winner.”
Via Games Industry
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